Week in photos: Mar. 11-15

Tunguarahua volcano — called ‘throat of fire’ — in Equador erupts, spewing sparks and lava into the night sky.

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The distraught mother of Ram Singh, the bus driver accused in the gang-rape case that has rocked India in recent months, cries during an interview in her home in a New Delhi slum after Singh hanged himself in his jail cell. Family said they suspected “foul play.”

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Former British energy minister Chris Huhne helps a lensman to an up-close shot as he arrives at a London court for sentencing. Huhne and ex-wife Vicky Pryce each got eight months for lying during a 2003 traffic stop.

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A boy sits buried in a ball pit in the AnderSon Family Cafe, a Russian Chuck-E-Cheese, in Moscow.

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Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Mich., lies in front of the grave of her brother Ryan — who served the Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan until dying a year ago of complications from an injury sustained in the latter.

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Members of animal rights group Anima Naturalis protest in support of animal rights from inside a cage at Alpujarra Park in Medellin, Colombia.

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A time-lapse view captures the night sky above the Mars Desert Research Station outside Hanksville, Utah. The station’s aim is to investigate the possibility of a human exploration of the Red Planet.

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Indonesian Hindu devotees parade their “Ogoh Ogoh” effigies during a ceremony celebrating the eve of the Day of Silence at Jakarta’s National Monument.

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A sleepy lion takes an early-morning stretch at Nairobi’s National Park in Kenya.

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Debris lies around the charred remains of a home in Gray, Ky., after a fire erupted killing two adults and five children inside.

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Nobuhisa Iwai kneels in the sand in Sendai, Japan, to pray for his friend who was killed by the tsunami that slammed into the area two years ago.

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Security personnel and locals gawk at a crater left after a suicide car bombing in Debis, Iraq, that killed three civilians were killed and hurt some 70 others, including a large number of schoolchildren.

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Locals can be seen through a broken window at the Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon after clashes between Fatah and radical Islamists that killed one and left 10 injured.

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The St. Louis Cardinals’ J.R. Towles collapses in pain in front of Yankees catcher Chris Stewart after fouling a ball off his own foot during a spring training game in Tampa, Fla.,

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Hindu devotees pelt each other with turmeric powder as an offering to the god Khandoba during celebrations of Somavati Amavasya at the Jejuri temple in Pune, India. ‘

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A saleswoman is held at knife point inside a supermarket in Zhengzhou, China. The hostage-taker set her free after his relatives persuaded him to give up.

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Napo, a Mandrill, seems bored with the afternoon at his enclosure at the zoo in Dresden, Germany.

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Brooklyn’s Brook Lopez defends against the 76ers’ Spencer Hawes during the second half of a 106-97 Philly win.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un waves as his boat is shoved off on its way to the Wolnae Islet Defence Detachment, near the western end of the front line, as his country prepares a massive military exercise.

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Harry Styles of British boy band One Direction gets measured for a wax model by employees of Madam Tussauds in London.

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A Catholic pilgrim — barefoot and dressed in burlap — prays at St Peter’s square during the first hours of the conclave at the Sistine Chapel.

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Adriano Ferreira Martins of Qatar’s El-Jaish tells the viewers at home to hush as he celebrates a goal against Iran’s Tractorsazi Tabriz in the Asian Champions League.

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People help a driver move his bus after activists from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party set fire to it during a nationwide strike in Dhaka. The strike was called in response to the Monday arrests of 200 party leaders.

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A horse shows what it thinks about the late-winter snow in its paddock near Hanover, Germany.

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A peddler pedals her wares to a market in Sarlingyi, Myanmar.

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Pink leans over the masses bellied up to the stage during her show at the Bell Centre in Montreal.

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A fire continues to rage, flanked by the charred remains of a tugboat after that craft — as well as a barge — hit a gas pipeline Tuesday evening in Perot Bay off the coast of Lafourche Parish, La.

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A rescued California sea lion pup peers through a fence at the Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach, which has been overwhelmed by the number of severely malnourished and dehydrated pups coming to shore along the Orange County coastline.

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Vanessa James spins through the air after being tossed by partner Morgan Cipres during their short program at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in London.

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A Palestinian militant leaps a fire pit during a demonstration of skills during a military graduation ceremony in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.

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A miniature Eiffel Tower made of snow stands juxtaposed against the real thing after snowfall pounded Paris.

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An Afghan military officer catches some shuteye during a graduation ceremony at the National Military Academy in Kabul.

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Faheema Titi, the sister of Mahmoud Titi, mourns covered in her brother’s blood after embracing his body during a funeral in Al-Fawwar refugee camp near Hebron, West Bank.

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Comet Pan-STARRS streaks over Mount Taylor seen from Albuquerque, N.M. The comet passed within 100 million miles of Earth last week.

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LIU Brooklyn’s Jamal Olasewere snuggles up to the NEC tournament trophy after his team snagged it’s third straight title with a win over Mount St. Mary’s.

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US striker Alex Morgan gets a celebratory piggy back ride from Sydney Leroux after scoring the opening goal against Germany during the Algarve Cup final in Faro, Portugal. Morgan netted another, giving the US its 9th Algarve cup.

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A French air force helicopter passes low over the rocky terrain while on patrol in the Adrar region of northern Mali.

A Palestinian man past a row of defaced placards depicting President Obama in Ramallah, West Bank. The US leader will visit the region next week.

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North Korean artillery units fire at a nearby island during live drills overseen by leader Kim Jong-un and top military officers.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony amid a heavy snowfall at the Russia’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, near the Kremlin in Moscow.

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Austria’s Klaus Kroell tumbles through a barrier during the Men’s Super G competition at the Alpine Ski World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

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NYPD riot officers arrest a young man at a protest in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Tensions continued to be boil as protests in response to the shooting of alleged gang member, 16-year-old Kimani Gray, continue.

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A woman holds up a photo of a refugee camp that reads “rescue us” during a candlelit vigil in Cairo, Egypt, marking the second anniversary of the Syrian revolution.

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Carolina Kostner of Italy seems surreally surprised at something during her short program at the 2013 World Figure Skating Championships in in London, Ontario, Canada.

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Laura and Sasha, twin Polish Tatra sheepdogs, peer out of the back their owner’s truck before a ride in Pine Island, NY.

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An anti-government protester is engulfed in flames after a shot fired by riot police hit the gasoline bomb he’d been holding during clashes in Sanabis, Bahrain.

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Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs shows off an unorthodox microphone technique during an SXSW performance at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q in Austin, Texas.